Valve gets official on when we'll be playing new titles in the Orange Box and …

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In a decision that BioShock
probably should
have made, Valve has confirmed that all three Orange Box titles—Half-Life
2:Episode Two, Team Fortress 2,
and the enigmatic Portal—will be
unlocked "shortly after midnight" Pacific Time on October 10. Valve
also confirmed the Orange Box for PC
and 360 will be available via brick-and-mortar retailers on the 10th.

As previously reported, Valve has also confirmed the gift program for gamers that have already purchased Half-Life 2 and Episode One prior to purchasing the Orange Box:

For people that have purchased The Orange Box over Steam, now is the time to decide who your real friends are, since you'll be able to give them the gift of Half-Life 2 or Episode One if you already own those games. We'll have that all ready to go at the start of next week.

In our last bit of Orange Box news, Valve has been running a television commercial for the Orange Box. It had to have been hard to make all those different games look like one cohesive package, but the company did a great job. The Orange Box can't come soon enough.